Eva Zeisel Quotes

If I hadn't been a designer, I'd have been a painter. I began as a painter and learned the craft of pottery in order to support myself.

Eva Zeisel

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: designer
  • Nationality: hungarian
  • Birth: November 13, 1906 - December 30, 2011

Topics

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Rather than passing a thousand pages of tax reform legislation and restarting the tax code manipulation process, we should change the paradigm. It is time to eliminate the IRS and repeal the 16th Amendment.

Jim Bridenstine

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It's good to stand for something, to believe in something and base your business on values.

Jerry Greenfield

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I have always said and felt that true enjoyment can not be described.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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The major poets of New Jersey have all suffered, whether it's Whitman, who lost his job for 'Leaves of Grass,' or William Carlos Williams, who was called a communist, or Ginsberg, whose 'Howl' was prosecuted, or myself. If you practise poetry the way I think it needs to be done, you're going to put yourself in jeopardy.

Amiri Baraka

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Even if I think in English, it's more a language of acting than French.

Sophie Marceau

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I don't know how Coach Saban found me all the way in Hawaii from Alabama.

Tua Tagovailoa

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I'd rather climb Everest than go for a walk in the park.

Tony Harrison

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At my first job as an independent researcher at MIT Lincoln Laboratory, they told me I could work on most anything, but not what I knew something about. That is actually very good advice to a young person starting a career because you bring new ideas to the field.

Mildred Dresselhaus

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Either I'm in the studio creating something, or I'm on stage doing some stand-up somewhere... or I'm creating a parody video flexing my pecs.

Jay Pharoah

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I went to an ordinary school in New York City with no other actors. I learned to compartmentalise different parts of my life. I was one person at home and then another person at work and for that reason my career didn't challenge my family life.

Brooke Shields

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Most of black America is in housing projects, without jobs, living on welfare. And this is not the case in 'The Cosby Show,' because all the values in that household are strictly what I would call white American values.

August Wilson

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For a workout, I love to hike or take a long walk. Being outside is crucial; I can't stand gyms.

Alice Greczyn

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